Writing and healing : toward an informed practice /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Anderson, Charles M., MacCurdy, Marian M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, [2000]
Series:Refiguring English studies.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Finding our way in
  • Whose voice is it anyway? / Anne Ruggles Gere
  • Language and literature as "equipment for living" : revision as a life skill / Tilly Warnock
  • Suture, stigma, and the pages that heal / Charles M. Anderson with Karen Holt and Patty McGady
  • 2. Traditions and extensions
  • Writing as healing and the rhetorical tradition : sorting out Plato, postmodernism, writing pedagogy, and post-traumatic stress disorder / T.R. Johnson
  • A strange unaccountable something : historicizing sexual abuse essays / Michelle Payne
  • From trauma to writing : a theoretical model for practical use / Marian M. MacCurdy
  • Healing and the brain / Alice G. Brand
  • Pathography and enabling myths : the process of healing / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
  • 3. Writing and healing in the classroom
  • Language, power, and consciousness : a writing experiment at the University of Toronto / Guy Allen
  • Writing about suicide / Jeffrey Berman and Jonathan Schiff
  • Teaching emotional literacy / Jerome Bump
  • Writing through the fear to reframe experience and discover values / Regina Paxton Foehr
  • 4. Writing and healing in the world
  • Voices from the line : the Clothesline Project as healing text / Laura Julier
  • "The more I tell my story" : writing as healing in an HIV/AIDS community / Emily Nye
  • Las Madres, upstairs/downstairs : from soul maps and story circles to intertextual collaboration / Sandra Florence.